scrappy
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And Gasly and his team absolutely nailed qualifying, while all the usual leading contenders had scrappy sessions one way or another.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
CBS’s upcoming legal drama “Cupertino,” premiering next month, portrays tech giants as Goliaths against a team of scrappy attorneys taking up the causes of those wronged by them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Their scrappy determination helped convince family members, neighbors and eventually the rest of the country that the Constitution’s guarantees of liberty and equality applied to same-sex couples.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026
“So we do get scrappy, and I think that’s what sets the I.E. apart from places like L.A. and O.C.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
“There’s nothing to be scared of, Nate. You're small and scrappy and can get out of any situation the world throws at you.”
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
Serrano started strongly with sharp body work and accurate left hands from her southpaw stance, before the contest developed into a scrappier affair than expected.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
Verizon needs to become scrappier and less bureaucratic, Schulman said at a WSJ Leadership Institute event this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
I’m really grateful for Veeps and the opportunity to do a special with them, they’re a little scrappy and they have a decent budget, but it’s definitely scrappier than all my other specials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024
But what I found was that Black newsrooms, because we often had smaller budgets, we were scrappier.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2024
He was red-haired, ferret-eyed, and an excellent scout, but scrappier and more inarticulate in his manner of speech than any human being I had ever encountered.
From Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose by Grant Allen
This is the probably the scrappiest I had to be since "Colma: The Musical."
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2023
Based on Daniel James Brown’s bestselling novel of the same name, “The Boys in the Boat” follows Joe Rantz, who’s perhaps the scrappiest of all his teammates.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2023
It was a long week of matches, featuring some of the scrappiest Overwatch I’ve seen this season.
From The Verge ● Jul. 25, 2022
The resignations and cuts are a major setback for BuzzFeed News, one of the scrappiest and most successful digital news operations in the country.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
Take a dozen such pyramids, and do your morning constitutional over them, after the scrappiest of breakfasts at 5 a.m., and you will find twelve or fourteen miles quite as much as you care about.
From The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland by Cecil Francis Romer
